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I wasn't listening to SW last night, but the MW band was much more watery than usual around 10 pm. EDT while listening to the Midwest powerhouses carrying MLB finishing up games after I got home. I put it down to the spring storms ripping across the country, but on reading this, I'm not so sure.

Late to the party, but I did see it on my waterfall last night. Not for the first time, either, but it's been a few weeks since I last saw it. I think it was more around 6880 at the time but I don't generally log utes, OTHR, or other stuff like that, no matter how big it is, so I can't remember.

In the heyday of the Lincolnshire Poacher they would show up around 6957 kHz. with a strong carrier much like that, just before the recorder music and the message. A lot of times they would throw a whopper of a carrier in that region, then show up on another freq. The Poacher wasn't a constant source of noise. They'd do their thing and shut down.

I'm wondering if the current dust-up with Putin and Assad isn't partially to blame for this one? Post the WTC attack in '01 a powerful data station set up on 6950. It and a legal station in Chile on 6955 kHz. are what caused the "Great Pirate Migration of 2001" to 6925. The data station was normally 20 kHz wide at S meter pegging levels. I hated that thing.

I am pretty sure this is 4G ALE (WBALE), wideband data (up to 120 kbs, but 48 kb is common). Harris, Rockwell, L3, and a few others have been playing with this for a few years now, and it has been showing up more and more all up and down the bands. All of them have experimental licenses that allow this mode in the frequency ranges shown in these images.

That is one type, I have seen at least two different types, three if this is one, although admittedly it is not one I have seen before.

Yes, I noted the shape, and that being atypical for data. And it is a better shape for a none rectangular pulse radar transmission, but without a bit more information, like a recording, I really have no idea. I hesitate to suggest a radar, being a radar guy that is kind of my go-to answer, you know, when your favorite tool is a hammer everything looks like a nail, so I wanted to avoid jumping to "radar" as a suggestion.